11. International and multilingual websites
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:00 am
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Finally, if you don’t have access to Search Console, you can simply try navigating to your site using Chrome incognito mode to look for any security warnings. Alternatively, you can check your site status using Google’s Safe Browsing tool .
Millions of sites target different languages and geographic regions around the world. If your site targets multiple regions andor languages, and your content varies, you need to thoroughly check the accuracy of your language and geographic targeting.
Signal location positioning
If your content targets a specific location or multiple locations, there are three main ways to signal this to Google:
1. Locally specific URLs . For example, Google would guatemala mobile database interpret the following URL as being primarily targeted at users in Australia:
au.exampleomSubdomain
example.autop-level domain
exampleomauTable of contents
Parameters for specifying geolocation are not recommended, such asexampleom?loc=au
2. hreflang attributes . You can specify hreflang targeting in three different places:
In HTML
In headers
In the sitemap file
3. International Targeting Report. Using Google Search Console, you can target your entire site to a specific country using the International Targeting Report . This option is not recommended if your site targets multiple regions.
Finally, if you don’t have access to Search Console, you can simply try navigating to your site using Chrome incognito mode to look for any security warnings. Alternatively, you can check your site status using Google’s Safe Browsing tool .
Millions of sites target different languages and geographic regions around the world. If your site targets multiple regions andor languages, and your content varies, you need to thoroughly check the accuracy of your language and geographic targeting.
Signal location positioning
If your content targets a specific location or multiple locations, there are three main ways to signal this to Google:
1. Locally specific URLs . For example, Google would guatemala mobile database interpret the following URL as being primarily targeted at users in Australia:
au.exampleomSubdomain
example.autop-level domain
exampleomauTable of contents
Parameters for specifying geolocation are not recommended, such asexampleom?loc=au
2. hreflang attributes . You can specify hreflang targeting in three different places:
In HTML
In headers
In the sitemap file
3. International Targeting Report. Using Google Search Console, you can target your entire site to a specific country using the International Targeting Report . This option is not recommended if your site targets multiple regions.